Michael Parker

Michael Parker
Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By age 17, he was touring with The National Shakespearean Youth Company. He graduated in the top 3% of his class from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but described his five years of military service as “uneventful.” There being few employment opportunities in civilian life for infantry anti-tank specialists, at age 23 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a Temporary Office Help business, which proved so successful that he was able to retire ten years later and move to the Caribbean.
Over the succeeding years, while living in Bermuda, Grand Cayman and The Turks and Caicos Islands, he was free again to indulge his passion for the theatre. Never far from The United States, he was able to audition for roles in many Florida theatres. As an English actor working in America, Mr. Parker became acutely aware of the difficulties experienced by American theatre companies in producing English works, in particular modern farces. Re-creating the wide range of English dialects is almost impossible, and many of the best farces simply do not “translate” well into “American.” So he challenged himself to write a play which would integrate all the best loved and most familiar devices of the traditional British farce into a distinctly American setting. This had to be a play in which the verbal, visual and, above all, circumstantial humor would be immediately available to American audiences.
The result was an “American farce,” The Sensuous Senator, which was inspired by the then-current sex scandal involving Senator Gary Hart. Encouraged by the success of his first play and the popularity of the British “naughty but nice” concept, he went on to write a sequel called The Amorous Ambassador. The rest, as they say, is history.
He wrote The Lone Star Love Potion in 1999, Hotbed Hotel in 2000, There’s a Burglar in My Bed and Whose Wives Are They Anyway? in 2002, Who’s In Bed with the Butler? in 2003, and Never Kiss a Naughty Nanny in 2006. With his wife Susan, he co-authored the plays Sin, Sex & the CIA (2006), Sex Please We’re Sixty! (2008), What is Susan’s Secret? (2010), Money Matters (2014), Love, Lies & the Doctor’s Dilemma (2016) and Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses (2018).
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Money Matters
Michael Parker, Susan Parker
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Money Matters
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 3m
The late Mr. Hammond spent twenty years printing $20 bills on a printing press he built in the basement of Monet Manor. After his death ten years ago, his faithful retainer George and his daughter Annie, continued the family business for Mr. Hammond’s widow who recently passed away. Contrary to her promise to leave the manor and all her assets to George and Annie, she has bequeathed the manor to a stranger, Mr. Bud Davis, who is emphatic about turning it into a retirement home for ladies...
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Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses
Michael Parker, Susan Parker
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Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
The Lovers’ Landing Beach Hotel, a popular wedding destination, has acquired a certain mystique as the home of Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses. Recently inheriting the hotel from her late father, Audrina Brown quickly discovers that her Uncle Bubba, the hotel manager, is running a variety of “extra-curricular activities” on the property. It’s a mystery. It’s a love story. It’s a new farce by the authors of Sex Please We’re Sixty.
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The Amorous Ambassador
Michael Parker
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The Amorous Ambassador
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
"Hilarious....Will keep you in constant laughter." - Corpus Christi Caller Times
"The funniest two hours of stage comedy in recent memory." -Midland Reporter Telegram
“Hormone” Harry Douglas from The Sensuous Senator is back to his old shenanigans again, but this time as the American Ambassador to Great Britain.
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Money Matters
Michael Parker, Susan Parker
Full-Length Play, ComedyMoney Matters
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 3m
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Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses
Michael Parker, Susan Parker
Full-Length Play, ComedySandy Toes & Salty Kisses
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
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The Amorous Ambassador
Michael Parker
Full-Length Play, ComedyThe Amorous Ambassador
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
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Hotbed Hotel
Michael Parker
Hotbed Hotel